If you don’t care about your health get out of your healthcare coverage today.

Winners WIN in an uphill battle.

I seem to criticize and cite the poor “Bill of Health” of our nation that I love so much. Truth be told there is far to much to criticize. Given all that there is to criticize about our nations bill of health I could easily argue that my criticisms are minimal.


Our Bill of health can be and IS directly tied to our record budget deficits. Health care not only involves medical care but with a devastatingly worsening bill of health has also become an economic phenomenon. More is spent on health care in the United States on a per capita basis than in any other nation in the world. An America without obesity for example would save $487 billion dollars each year—enough to hand every American a $4,270 check annually OR that money could go to pay off the national debt which we have not brought back down to zero since the year 1835! Our bill of health is only one of many factors here but it’s clear there is an inverse relationship between our national bill of health and our national public debt. That is, as our health declines our debt increases to pay for it economically and we all suffer.

HMO’s and health care providers project that keeping enrollees healthy will reduce medical visits, hospital admissions, and medication use. This is a huge chunk of that Annual $487 billion dollars each year that is spent on health insurance. Other factors include the $5 billion we’d save in fueling our cars and planes, $10 billion less on clothes, we’d be so productive at work that the nation would see a $257 billion dollar boost (this one would obviously dramatically increase GDP – the number one measurement economists use to measure growth). Impressive hey? You should be encouraging anyone and everyone to learn and do.


I respect everyone’s right to exercise personal autonomy and live the way one chooses to live. Do what you will do but don’t bring the rest of us down if you choose a method that makes all of us suffer for your decisions. In other words, if you don’t care about your health or teaching your kids how to become independently healthy human beings then don’t insist on your personal health care coverage. If you are physically able to be regularly active and adhere to reasonable nutrition and you still choose not to then don’t insist on health insurance for yourself thereby making the rest of us suffer for it. It is profoundly offensive to do so and we really don’t have the money to support you anymore.


If I have offended anyone from asking people who don’t care about their health to not insist upon health insurance coverage, well, you have offended me and our national public debt first and ten times greater. Play in the sandbox you created or live irresponsibility and re allocate the burden onto everyone else. Are you ok with re allocating burdens by choice? Really?


With all of that said it is an extreme uphill battle in the context of peer support on a national level to become an independently healthy human being. Every person who has gone against the national grain to take better care of themselves in a lifestyle change deserves much loud applause. Most importantly, those that decide to act TODAY rather than putting it off till tomorrow deserve an extra helping hand and encouragement so they can join us in wining in an uphill battle. You, myself, we, us, those who begin TODAY and NOT tomorrow have something special inside of us that sets us apart from being common. We will have better things tomorrow because we are willing to do the things that most people are not willing to do today and it should be recognized as such. The GREAT potential here is that IF a better bill of health does become the norm in our great nation it does not diminish our greatness as individuals for those of us who have “stepped up” to take more control of our lives and our futures. I hope that healthier living and a thriving economy does become common place again in the United States.

Tom